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Plans are underway to provide thousands of individuals under age 21 who have autism spectrum disorder (ASD) with home-based interventions and other services through the state's Medicaid program beginning Jan. 1. "This is absolutely huge," said Jennifer Bogin, director of Autism Spectrum Services for the Connecticut Department of Developmental Services (DDS). "Many children already get quality programming during the school day. But it's rare when that programming is brought into the home. This is a way for families to fully include their children." DDS is working with the state Department of Social Services (DSS) and other state agencies to draft a new...

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Plans are underway to provide thousands of individuals under age 21 who have autism spectrum disorder (ASD) with home-based interventions and other services through the state's Medicaid program beginning Jan. 1.
"This is absolutely huge,"...

Angela Lewis-Shakes learned when she went to a dental appointment last week that her Medicaid coverage had been cut off.
She knew she'd have to call the state Department of Social Services to straighten out her coverage. But she dreaded it.
Last...

A woman who lost custody of her children while in a city witness protection program filed a $34 million lawsuit against the Baltimore Department of Social Services yesterday, alleging that her toddler son suffered a fractured skull when he was slammed...

When Christopher J. McCabe stood at the microphone of a recent nationally
televised news conference, Maryland's highest child welfare official mentioned
his boss' name, introduced his colleagues and spoke vaguely about his agency's
work.
The secretary of...

Baltimore's top health official proposed yesterday that the state reform
its troubled child protective system by stationing abuse caseworkers in
hospitals 24 hours a day and acting more quickly to remove minors from
dangerous homes.
Dr. Peter L....

Noting last year's torture death of Ciara Jobes, a report filed in U.S.
District Court in Baltimore asserts that the city's Department of Social
Services is "sitting on a time bomb" and is putting hundreds of supervised
children at risk...

A Baltimore City grand jury indicted yesterday on first-degree murder
charges the legal guardian of a teen-age girl who prosecutors said died from
abuse.
Satrina Roberts, 31, was charged with murder and child abuse in the death
of Ciara Jobes, 15....

City Department of Social Services officials are continuing to illegally house foster children at a downtown office building, the director of the state-run agency confirmed yesterday.
Samuel Chambers Jr. said that two teenage girls, one of whom ran away...

Baltimore County social workers visited the home of Roy Lechner Jr. more than 150 times in the two years before he died of suspected abuse - but didn't feel they had conclusive evidence that the Dundalk boy was in danger.
"This is not a case of a...

The Baltimore City Department of Social Services office at 301 N. Gay St. was never intended to house children - but lots of them have spent nights there.
More than 100 foster children have slept in the office since January, when social workers began...

Martina Ford holds a photograph showing her son, a chubby child with a misshapen head, lying in a hospital bed in Spider-Man pajamas. In another photo, she awkwardly cradles the boy, whose body is attached to tentacles of tubing.
"That's my...